Diastereoselectivity rearrangement

Boronic ester homologation. (R,R)-2,3-Butanediol- and (-(- )-pinanediol have been used as the chiral adjuncts in a diastereoselective homologation of dichloromethaneboronic esters (1) to the (aS)-a-chloroboronic esters (2). Reaction of 1 with an alkyllithium produces a borate complex (a), which rearranges diastereoselectively in the presence of ZnCl, to 2 with introduction of a chiral center adjacent to boron. The reaction permits... 

Dramatic rate accelerations of [4 + 2]cycloadditions were observed in an inert, extremely polar solvent, namely in5 M solutions oflithium perchlorate in diethyl ether(s 532 g LiC104 per litre ). Diels-Alder additions requiring several days, 10—20 kbar of pressure, and/ or elevated temperatures in apolar solvents are achieved in high yields in some hours at ambient pressure and temperature in this solvent (P.A. Grieco, 1990). Also several other reactions, e.g, allylic rearrangements and Michael additions, can be drastically accelerated by this magic solvent. The diastereoselectivities of the reactions in apolar solvents and in LiClO EtjO are often different or even complementary and become thus steerable. 

The (partial) description of the synthesis and coupling of the five fragments starts with the cyclohexyl moiety C —C. The first step involved the enantio- and diastereoselective harpless epoxidation of l,4-pentadien-3-ol described on p. 126f. The epoxide was converted in four steps to a d-vinyl d-lactone which gave a 3-cyclohexenecarboxylate via Ireland-CIaisen rearrangement (cf. p. 87). Uncatalysed hydroboration and oxidation (cf. p. 131) yielded the desired trans-2-methoxycyclohexanol which was protected as a silyl ether. The methyl car-... 

There are a number of powerful synthetic reactions which join two trigonal carbons to form a CC single bond in a stereocontrolled way under proper reaction conditions. Included in this group are the aldol, Michael, Claisen rearrangement, ene and metalloallyl-carbonyl addition reactions. The corresponding transforms are powerfully stereosimplifying, especially when rendered enantioselective as well as diastereoselective by the use of chiral controller groups. Some examples are listed in Chart 20. 

The major limitation of asymmetric sulfur ylide epoxidations is that only aromatic vinylepoxides can be formed efficiently and with high selectivity. When an aliphatic aldehyde is allowed to react with a semistabilized or nonstabilized sulfur ylide, poor diastereoselectivities and yields are observed, due to problems in controlling the ylide conformation and competing ylide rearrangement reactions [71]. However, some racemic, aliphatic vinylepoxides have been successfully formed by sulfur ylide epoxidations, although varying diastereoselectivities were observed [78-80],... 

With prostereogenic carbonyl components, the problem of simple diastereoselectivity arises, which is unsatisfactorily solved at present21. Both the intermediate alkoxides rearrange by migration of the carbonyl group at a different rate21 22, which might be used for the enrichment of one diastereomer. 

Simple diastereoselection in the reactions of 2-butenylboron compounds and aldehydes is critically dependent on the configurational stability of the reagentslb. As a general rule, most 2-bulenylorganometallics arc sensitive to sequential 1,3-metal shifts (1,3-metallotropic rearrangements) that result in E- to Z-olefin isomerization via the l-methyl-2-propenylmetal isomer. 

The cycloaddition of glyoxylic acid with cyclopentadiene in water at pH 6 and 60 °C is slow and occurs with low yield and low diastereoselectivity [18] (Scheme 6.17). Proton (pH = 0.9) [18], copper salts [27] and Bi(OTf)3 [28] accelerate the reaction and increase the diastereoselectivity. The lactones 28 and 29 originate from endo and exo cycloadducts 27, respectively. The proposed rearrangement is depicted in Scheme 6.17 for the major endo adduct 30. A competitive ene reaction that originates 28 and 29 cannot be excluded [28]. 

Thia-[2,3]-Wittig sigmatropic rearrangement of lithiated carbanions 47, obtained by deprotonation of the S-allylic sulfides 46, affords the thiols 48 or their alkylated derivatives 49. The corresponding sulfonium ylides 51, prepared by deprotonation of the sulfonium salts 50 also undergoes a [2,3]-sigmatropic shift leading to the same sulfides 49 [36,38] (Scheme 13). As far as stereochemistry is concerned, with crotyl (R R =H,R =Me) and cinnamyl (R, R =H,R =Ph) derivatives, it has been shown that the diastereoselectivity depends on the nature of the R substituent and on the use of a carbanion or an ylide as intermediate. 

By heating 2-benzyloxycyclohexanone 208 and (R)-l-phenylethylamine in refluxing toluene for 4 days in a Dean-Stark apparatus, the imine 209 was formed, then a rearrangement occurred to give first the a-aminocyclohexanone derivative 210 and finally the Q, o -disubstituted imine 211 with moderate diastereoselectivity. Reduction of this imine with sodium borohydride gave a mixture of two trans diamines (S,S)-212 and (R,R)-212, which were separated by chromatography. The enantiomers of 1-benzyl-1,2-diaminocyclohexanes 213 were then obtained by hydrogenolysis [99] (Scheme 31). 

Finally, the most significant mechanistic feature of the Ramberg-Backlund rearrangement is the stereoselective formation of ds-olefin products, as a result of the preferential cis-positioning of the pair of R groups in the episulfone-forming transition state, variously attributed to London forces , to diastereoselectivity in carbanion formation and to steric attraction . However, with the use of stronger bases such as potassium t-butoxide °, the trans-olefin predominates (equation 52), apparently due to prior epimerization of the kinetically favoured cts-episulfone, and subsequent loss of the sulfur dioxide. Similarly, when the episulfone intermediates possess unusually acidic... 

Deprotonation of allylic aryl sulfoxides leads to allylic carbanions which react with aldehyde electrophiles at the carbon atom a and also y to sulfur . With benzaldehyde at — 10 °C y-alkylation predominates , whereas with aliphatic aldehydes at — 78 °C in the presence of HMPA a-alkylation predominates . When the a-alkylated products, which themselves are allylic sulfoxides, undergo 2,3-sigmatropic rearrangement, the rearranged compounds (i.e., allylic sulfenate esters) can be trapped with thiophiles to produce overall ( )-l,4-dihydroxyalkenes (equation 24). When a-substituted aldehydes are used as electrophiles, formation of syn-diols 27 occurs in 40-67% yields with diastereoselectivities ranging from 2-28 1 (equation 24) . ... 

Morken et al. developed a reductive Claisen rearrangement of substituted allyl acrylates. The reaction of ( )-hex-2-enyl acrylate 175 was catalyzed by [Rh(COD)Cl]2 (0.25 mol %) and Me-DuPhos (0.5 mol %) with C MeSiH in benzene at 22 °C to give y,8-unsaturated ester 176 with high diastereoselect-ivity, 11 1 (Scheme 46) [80]. The reaction was carried out on a 10 g scale to provide a 70% yield of 176. This reaction was applied to allylic ester 177 to provide 178, which is a key intermediate in the total synthesis of inos-tamycin [24],... 

MgS04, the tetracycles 2-648 were obtained with excellent diastereoselectivity in reasonable yield. The reaction presumably starts with a condensation of the aldehydes 2-645 with the benzyl-protected amine moiety of 2-644 to give an iminium ion which can subsequently cyclize to afford the spirocyclic intermediates 2-646. A [3,3] sigmatropic Cope rearrangement then forms the nine-membered cyclic enamines 2-647 which, after protonation, act as the starting point for another indole iminium cyclization to provide the tetracycles 2-648 via 2-647. 

The Davies group has described several examples of a rhodium-catalyzed decomposition of a diazo-compound followed by a [2+1] cycloaddition to give divinyl cyclopropanes, which then can undergo a Cope rearrangement. Reaction of the pyrrol derivative 6/2-51 and the diazo compound 6/2-52 led to the tropane nucleus 6/2-54 via the cyclopropane derivative 6/2-53 (Scheme 6/2.11) [201]. Using (S)-lactate and (R)-pari lolaclorie as chiral auxiliaries at the diazo compound, a diastereoselectivity of around 90 10 could be achieved in both cases. 

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